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Ms. Katherine Lucy Garrett-Cox, CBE has been serving as the Chief Executive Officer at Alliance Trust PLC since August 29, 2008, as its Chief Investment Officer since 2007, and as its Executive Director since May 1, 2007. Ms. Garrett-Cox is responsible for both investment policy and asset allocation of the firm as well as executive oversight for the business. She has been serving as the Chief Executive Officer and Executive Director of Alliance Trust Asset Management ... Ltd. since 2008 and as its Chief Investment Officer since 2007. Ms. Garrett-Cox serves as a Partner at ORN Capital LLP. She served as the Chief Investment Officer and Executive Director at Aviva Investors Global Services Limited (previously known as Morley Fund Management Limited) from 2004 to 2007 and was responsible for more than £160bn invested in equities, fixed income, private equity, and alternatives. Ms. Garrett-Cox served as the Chief Executive and Group Chief Investment Officer at Aberdeen Asset Management Ltd. from 2000 to 2003, and as its Executive Director from 2000 to 2003. She served as an Investment Director, and Head of American Equities at Hill Samuel Asset Management from 1993 to 2000, and managed a range of retail and institutional mandates in excess of $5.5bn. Ms. Garrett-Cox had started at the firm as a Portfolio Manager. She worked at Fidelity Investments and UNI Storebrand from 1990 to 1993. She serves as the Executive Chairman of Alliance Trust Savings Ltd. She has been a Member of Supervisory Board at Deutsche Bank AG since May 26, 2011. Ms. Garrett-Cox served as Director of Aviva Investors Ireland Limited. Ms. Garrett-Cox is a Founder Member of the Advisory Council of TheCityUKMs. She is Vice Chair and Trustee of the Baring Foundation. Ms. Garrett-Cox has over extensive experience in the investment industry, having managed North American, Emerging Market, and Global Equities portfolios. She is a Fellow of the Thunderbird School of Global Management, Arizona. Ms. Garrett-Cox is an Associate of the Institute of Investment Management and Research, and a member of the UK Society of Investment Professionals, CFA Institute. She was awarded a CBE in the 2014 New Year Honours List for services to the Asset Management Industry and charitable service through the Baring Foundation and was nominated a Young Global Leader of the World Economic Forum in October 2005. Ms. Garrett-Cox studied "Leadership and Public Policy for the 21st Century”, at Harvard Kennedy School of Government in 2008. She graduated with a B.A. (Hons) in History from Durham University from 1996 to 1999.

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